Zerubbabel

Zerubbabel was the Persian governor of Yehud Medinata. The son of Shealtiel and the grandson of King Jeconiah of Judea, Zerubbabel followed in his family's history of civil service and became a Persian civil servant. In 538 BC, after Cyrus the Great ended the Babylonian captivity, Zerubbabel led the first 42,360 Jews back to Judea, and he also laid the foundation of the Second Temple in Jerusalem shortly after. He was the father of Meshullam, Hananiah, Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, and Abiud, the last of whom was an ancestor of Saint Joseph.